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...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." A bumbling Soviet submarine crew panics a tight little island off the New England coast, but the invasion scare is funniest when Broadway's Alan Arkin filters cold war jitters through the psyche of a reticent Russian sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...Secret of Santo Vittoria (Simon & Schuster) by Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Novelists: Skilled, Satirical, Searching | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." A Soviet submarine bumps aground on a tight little island off the New England coast, causing a hilarious invasion panic that is at its funniest when Broadway's Alan Arkin dominates the action as an unstrung Russian sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...Timer. Fred Allen once called Wynn the funniest visual comedian of the day - and so he was. He ate corn by attaching it to a typewriter carriage, knocking it back every time he wanted to start a new row; he invented a wind shield wiper to be served with grape fruit; and an eleven-foot pole for people he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: The First Time He Made Anyone Sad | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...blossomy German blonde, De Funès stays right behind him all the way in a green Jaguar, which is tailed, in turn, by a furtive Austin-Healey carrying members of a rival gang. Always mirthful if not memorable, and photographed in crisp showroom color, The Sucker is funniest on side excursions, particularly a sopping wet and agreeably ribald robbers-and-robbers chase among the stony nudes of the Tivoli fountains near Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Road Runners | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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